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WASHINGTON/RIYADH - U.S. President Donald Trump targeted Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials with sanctions on Monday, taking a dramatic, unprecedented step to increase pressure on Iran after Tehran’s downing of an unmanned American drone.
John Smith, who was director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control before joining a law firm last year, said the United States had never targeted an Iranian head of state before and that was a sign Trump was getting personal. The U.S. decision is another indication it “has no respect for international law and order,” he said.
“We call on the regime to abandon its nuclear ambitions, change its destructive behavior, respect the rights of its people, and return in good faith to the negotiating table,” Trump said in a statement. Trump said the sanctions are a “strong and proportionate response to Iran’s increasingly provocative actions.”
“It’s about proactive deterrence, because the Iranians just want to go out and do what they want to do and say hey we didn’t do it. We know what they’ve done,” the official told reporters, adding that the deterrents would include cameras, binoculars and ships.
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